FOOD LOVE

Oct 2, 2011

DOMAIN NAME SCAM

I received a letter in the mail today from the Domain Registry of Canada, advising me that my registration for familytreesmaycontainnuts.com will expire in February, 2012.

My domain names are not registered with this company. I use another company. I have no idea how they got my home address.

I did a search right away on this company and came across a good post at Six Pixels of Separation. I suggest you have a look at the post and make any decisions you have on the direct marketing scam for yourself with your own research.

The letter doesn’t say I am registered with Domain Registry of Canada it says this:

You must renew your domain name to retain exclusive rights to it on the Web, (Lori here: yes of course we do), and now is the time to transfer and renew your name from your current Registrar to the Domain Registry of Canada. Failure to renew your domain name by the expiration date may result in a loss of your online identity making it difficult for your customer and friends to located you on the Web. (Me again:well yes it will…but the expiration date is between me and Go Daddy and not this company)

Spread the word people. this company likely has a US version as well. This is a scam from Domain Registry of Canada. Scam, SCAM, can you say SCAM!!!!

So many people fall for this crap.A scammer scammed my grandma out of thousands of dollars. :(I get stuff from "PayPal" all the time that's NOT real. If I didn't see the typos I wouldn't know for sure it was fake...so I just ignore it all.

It's so sneaky -- because what they actually WRITE is true, but what they are implying is not true. Nasty tactic, but they cover their a**es by keeping to the putative truth, while hoping to hoodwink enough people to make it worth their while to spend the money on mailing. And sadly, it must be worth their while.

Now -- about that beadboard wallpaper in Monday's post -- it is GREAT. It's from Graham & Brown, and we used to one that is the "glue the wall" type, and found it much easier and neater to apply than normal or prepasted paper.

However -- some of our paper was the leftovers from 2010 when we did the kitchen splashboard, and some was from a newly ordered roll. and guess what? They were not the same! The color was two different whites, but that's immaterial because they are being painted.

But -- the thickness is different! The older roll is thicker -- visibly thicker when you look at it on-end. Therefore its grooves are slightly more shallow. I'm going to be writing to the company, as there's enough of a difference that I see it when I look at where new joins old on our wall -- and I think they should note on their website that HELLO! We've changed the thickness of the paper!

In normal use, it should work just as well -- it's just that I was mixing the two and therefore am peeved. Once again, peeved. Ah well, keeps my blood pumping.